A Belgian model has come under fire after posing naked in front of the Western Wall in Jerusalem.
Marisa Papen, from Flanders, Belgium, can be seen reclining in a plastic chair on a roof top above the religious site, and in another nude snap she climbs up a pole flying the Israeli flag.
Ms Papen posed for the controversial photos just months after another nude shoot in a temple complex in Luxor, Egypt saw her spending a night in a prison cell.
Controversial: Model Marisa Papen poses naked on a plastic chair on a rooftop in front of the Western Wall, in Jerusalem
Sending a message: Another photos sees the model climbs up a pole flying the Israeli flag
The Western Wall is located in the Old City of Jerusalem and is considered a holy site by Jews, Muslims and Christians.
The photos of Ms Papen were taken during a three-day trip through Israel, with her visit to Jerusalem coinciding with Israel’s Independence Day.
‘While the rest of Jerusalem was celebrating, I was enjoying the afternoon sun on a rooftop after a morning of running around in the desert – capturing our last frames of the trip,’ Ms Papen wrote on her blog.
The stunt sparked angry reactions online, with a number of people taking to Twitter to accuse her of being disrespectful.
Defending the photos on her blog, Ms Papen said she ‘wanted to push the bounderies [sic] of regilion [sic] and politics even further.’
Defence: Ms Papen wrote on her blog that she ‘wanted to push the boundaries of religion and politics even further’ with the naked photos
Sparking reactions: Some were outraged that Ms Papen had taken a photo of a religious holy site on Israeli’s Independence Day
The photos of Ms Papen were taken during a three-day trip through Israel with photographer Mathias Lambrecht
Some have accused her of specifically trying to offend Jews, as the the Islamic Dome of the Rock shrine and the Al-Aqsa Mosque to the right have been cropped out of the photo of her and the Western Wall.
‘If you really want to push the boundaries of religion and politics you missed the point. Go back to Jerusalem and take that picture again with wide frame – while you can see Al-Aqsa + Dome of the Rock,’ one person wrote on her blog.
Another added: ‘Why work so hard at hiding Al Aktsa mosque [sic] and the golden dome behind the wall? Was it in order not to upset Muslims? Just Jews?’
Risky: Last year, Ms Papen was sent to prison for a photoshoot in the temple complex of Karnak near the Egyptian city of Luxor
Imprisoned: Ms Papen is seen in one of the snaps taken in Egypt that saw her jailed
In September last year, Papen was forced to spent the night in an Egyptian prison after she was caught posing for a nude photoshoot at a temple.
Security guards spotted her and her photographer at the temple in Luxor, southern Egypt, and they were both arrested.
After a night in a prison cell with at least 20 other inmates, the pair were brought before a judge and released with a warning.
Papen has also posed for nude photo shoots the Democratic Republic of Congo and Ethiopia to raise awareness of animal extinction.